Article 3 Improving the processing and marketing of agricultural and fishery products
United Kingdom
Support may be granted for investments provided for in Article 25 of Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 relating to improving the processing and marketing of the agricultural including fishery products included in Annex I to the Treaty. Agricultural products, excluding fishery products, must originate in applicant countries or the Community. Investments at the retail level shall be excluded from support.
Support shall be granted to those persons ultimately responsible for financing the investment in enterprises fulfilling the conditions provided for in the first and second indents of Article 2(2) of this Regulation.
However, where acquis -related minimum standards regarding the environment, hygiene and animal welfare have been newly introduced at the time the application is received, the decision to grant support will be conditional on the enterprise meeting those new standards by the end of the realisation of the investment.
F2Eligible expenditure may include in particular:
the construction and acquisition of immovable property, with the exception of land purchase;
new machinery and equipment including computer software; however on a case-by-case basis the Commission may agree on eligibility of second-hand equipment subject to specific safeguards in particular concerning provenance and technical specification;
general costs, such as architects', engineers' and Consultants' fees, feasibility studies, acquisition of patents and licences, in addition to expenditure as referred to in (a) and (b) and up to a ceiling of 12 % of that expenditure.
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